Tuesday, December 09, 2008

NICKNAMESIf Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah. If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes.

EATING OUTWhen the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back. When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

MONEYA man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs. A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.

BATHROOMSA man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel . The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.

ARGUMENTSA woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

FUTUREA woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

SUCCESSA successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

MARRIAGEA woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

DRESSING UPA woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail. A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.

NATURALMen wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night. OFFSPRINGAh, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY A married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing!

Friday, December 05, 2008

This is a nice article I got as an email. I thought its better to share it with you all.....

Monica married Nick this day . At the end of the wedding party, Monica's mother gave her a newly opened bank saving passbook with Rs. 1000 deposit amount.

Mother: 'Monica, take this passbook . Keep it as a record of your marriage life . When there's something happy and memorable happened in your new life, put some money in . Write down what it's about next to the line . The more memorable the event is, the more money you can put in . I've done the first one for you today . Do the others with Nick . When you look back after years, you can know how much happiness you've had . '

Monica shared this with Nick when getting home . They both thought it was a great idea and were anxious to know when the second deposit can be made . This was what they did after certain time:

However, after years, they started fighting and arguing for trivial things . They didn't talk much . They regretted that they had marriedthe nastiest people in the world . . . . no more love . . . Kind of typical nowadays, huh?

One day Monica talked to her Mother: 'Mom, we can't stand it anymore .We agree to divorce . I can't imagine how I decided to marry this guy!!!"

Mother: 'Sure, girl, that's no big deal . Just do whatever you want ifyou really can't stand it . But before that, do one thing first . Remember the saving passbook I gave you on your wedding day? Take outall money and spend it first . You shouldn't keep any record of such a poor marriage . '

Monica thought it was true . So she went to the bank, waiting at the queue and planning to cancel the account . While she was waiting, she took a look at the passbook record . She looked, and looked, and looked . Then the memory of all the previous joy and happiness just came up her mind . Her eyes were then filled with tears . She left and went home .

When she was home, she handed the passbook to Nick, asked him to spend the money before getting divorce .

The next day, Nick gave the passbook back to Monica . She found a new deposit of Rs . 5000 . And a line next to the record: 'This is the day I notice how much I've loved you thru out all these years . How much happiness you've brought me . '

They hugged and cried, putting the passbook back to the safe . Do youknow how much money they had saved when they retired? I did not ask . I believe the money did not matter any more after they had gone thru all the good years in their life .

"When you fall in any way, don't see the place where you fell instead see the place from where you slipped . Life is about correcting mistakes . "

Thursday, November 20, 2008

I just had an idea to search what are the countries that have supercomputers and what are the operating system they are using. Just done a google search and find this marvelous site.

I just search for the countries that uses top 500 supercomputers. As usual US got the first place with more than 50%. What a good thing, Our neighbour India also having 8 out of top 500 supercomputers.Its a greate achivement I think. Unfortunatly Sri Lanka do not have any... :(

Here are the statistics for the November 2008.

Countries

Count

Share %

Australia

1

0.20 %

Belgium

2

0.40 %

Brazil

2

0.40 %

Bulgaria

1

0.20 %

Canada

2

0.40 %

China

15

3.00 %

Denmark

3

0.60 %

Finland

1

0.20 %

France

26

5.20 %

Germany

25

5.00 %

India

8

1.60 %

Ireland

1

0.20 %

Israel

1

0.20 %

Italy

11

2.20 %

Japan

18

3.60 %

Korea, South

1

0.20 %

Malaysia

1

0.20 %

Mexico

1

0.20 %

Netherlands

3

0.60 %

New Zealand

4

0.80 %

Norway

2

0.40 %

Poland

6

1.20 %

Russia

8

1.60 %

Slovenia

1

0.20 %

South Africa

1

0.20 %

Spain

6

1.20 %

Sweden

8

1.60 %

Switzerland

4

0.80 %

Taiwan

2

0.40 %

United Kingdom

45

9.00 %

United States

290

58.00 %

Totals

500

100%

Now the interesting part, Operating Systems they are using. The interesting fact is that more than 85% in Linux. Windows got only 1% share. Can you imagine that??? Here are the statistics.

Can you remember Windows 3.0??? One of the first UI based OS we have used. I can still remember the first day I hahve used windows 3.1 in a home of my friend. The first graphical experience, by typing an DOS command and start GUI with few tools and use the PaintBrush to draw an image. Sill remember the first drawing I had using Windows 3.0.

But this article is not about how I used Windows 3.x to draw an image. Its about the end of Windows 3.x by Microsoft by stopping the issue of licence for it. Windows 3.x started in May 1990 and from 1st of November 2008 Microsoft has stop the issuing of licence for it.

Friday, October 17, 2008

This is a nice story I came across through an email. So just thought its nice to share with you too.....

Read this:It is a 99.95% challenge that u will have a wrong answer to the question asked in the passage.

Once there was loving couple traveling in a bus in a mountainous area. Theydecided to get down at some place. After the couple got down at some placethe bus moved on. As the bus moved on, a huge rock fell on the bus from the mountain and crushed the bus to crumbs. Everybody on board was killed. Thecouple upon seeing that, said, "We wish we were on that bus" Why do u thinkthey said that?

Scroll down for answer

...........................................Come on think again ........

If they had remained on the bus instead of deciding to get down, theresulting time delay could have been avoided and the rock would have fallenafter the bus had passed ..!!! Think positive in life always and look for opportunities when u can help Others......Many times in life, the opposite of Success is not Failure, itsQuitting. Winners never quit, quitters never Win....

Friday, September 26, 2008

Always after I configured a mysql server in a machine (I have to do it once a month mostly as people always ask me to do so in their machines... ) I have to search the web (specially mysql website) and see how to add the new user including password for that syste.

So I thought its better to put it in my blog so I just want to search in my blog only rather than going through the mysql website.

After creating the mysql database you have to create the root password for the system. For that run the following commands from the mysql folder (You need to start the mysql server before issuing those):./bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new password'./bin/mysqladmin -u root -h password 'new password'Then login to mysql (mysql -u root -p ) and issue following commands to create new users.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'monty'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass' WITH GRANT OPTION;GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'monty'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass' WITH GRANT OPTION;GRANT RELOAD,PROCESS ON *.* TO 'admin'@'localhost';GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'dummy'@'localhost';

Hope this information is useful to all of you...~ Vidula Hasaranga - විදුල හසරංග ~

Friday, August 08, 2008

This is something I got as an email and though its worth to share with you. See how the egg become to a live creature and also keep in mind that the eggs we are eating do not have this abality because they make to eat, not to fertilize.